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Company news Volume 01/2001<br />
Activities in<br />
Scandinavia<br />
stepped up<br />
Danish EPLAN team<br />
A good year has passed since our<br />
branch office opened in Frederrikssund,<br />
approximately 40 kilometres<br />
from the Danish capital of Copenhagen.<br />
Since then, there has been much to<br />
report. The software solutions provider<br />
with its nine-man team now has a customer<br />
base of about 200 companies.<br />
The Swedish EPLAN subsidiary, which<br />
was founded towards the middle of last<br />
year at Rittal’s premises in Ängelholm,<br />
has also been very busy.<br />
Over 1,000 licences are already in use<br />
in Sweden, and the number continues<br />
to rise. The Ängelholm office is responsible<br />
for the regions of central<br />
and southern Sweden, and there<br />
are additional offices in the Stockholm<br />
and Göteborg areas.<br />
However, the ambitions of EPLAN Software & Service AB go<br />
further still - two months later, sales offices were opened in<br />
Norway and Finland as part of our plan to expand into<br />
neighbouring countries under the auspices of our Swedish<br />
subsidiary. Initially, a two-man team in Oslo started, now<br />
there are four persons to address the special requirements of<br />
software distribution, maintenance, installation and training.<br />
There are plans to further enlarge this team, and to continue<br />
publicising the software on a nationwide basis. Our subsidiary<br />
in Vantaa, Finland, likewise began with a two-man team<br />
- an engineer and a sales representative - and other<br />
employees will be recruited shortly.<br />
The sales offices in Norway and<br />
Finland are both located in the immediate<br />
vicinity of existing Rittal offices,<br />
where the existing infrastructure means<br />
that mutual synergy effects in the<br />
electrical engineering environment can<br />
be used to our advantage.<br />
The EPLAN software has already been<br />
marketed in both countries for the past<br />
six years via Rittal. EPLAN now owns<br />
the company, but in the past Rittal were<br />
exclusive dealers and cooperation partners<br />
for the German software house.<br />
Not only are we stepping up our presence<br />
in the Scandinavian market; what<br />
is more, our product portfolio has also<br />
been further expanded. In the past, the<br />
product range consisted of three triedand-tested<br />
software solutions for electrical<br />
project management and engineering<br />
- EPLAN 5, EPLAN 21 and EPLAN<br />
compact. This has now been supplemented<br />
by EPLAN Electrical Desktop,<br />
bringing with it additional sales opportunities<br />
based on AutoCAD.<br />
Jan Widblom<br />
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